exterior detail images of rapp and rapp's uptown theater located 4816 n. broadway, chicago, il. the cream-colored glazed terra cotta was executed by the short-lived advance terra cotta company, chicago, il. total cost for theater building terra cotta was 79,626.00. ...
october, 2025 visit: recent images of richard nickel’s adler & sullivan building ornament collection on display at lovejoy library, southern illinois university edwardsville (siue). nickel sold his architectural artifact collection to the university in 1966 for 12,000 dollars - a decision he never made peace with despite...
david felling kodachrome salvage images of eames and young's 1898 lincoln trust (more commonly known as title guaranty) building taken during its demolition in 1983. ...
dave felling kodachrome slides of edward e. eichenbaum's 3400-seat granada theater (1926), located at 6427-41 north sheridan road, chicago, il. ...
revisting "wrightesque" 1928 debaliviere building over a year later. photographic images of isadore shank's three-story art deco mayan-revival debaliviere building (1928), located at 5642-58 delmar blvd., st. louis, mo. the neglected and seemingly abandoned building's exterior is comprised largely of richly glazed black and red terra cotta...
why paint brick - or even sandstone? the moisture that builds between the surfaces of the materials leads to the paint peeling or flaking away and in the case of sandstone, disentigration. it's both a disservice and disappointment. detail images of the three-story stephen ganert commercial...
early 20th century photographic image of holabird and roche's oliver typewriter building (1907), located at 159 north dearborn street, chicago, il. the image (scanned from original glass negative) was likely taken by or for the chicago architectural photographing company. ...
historic american building survey (habs) images of william alfred freret's richardsonian romanesque style brick and terra cotta la crosse, wisc. post office building (1889) prior to its senseless destruction, the extant building that replaced it in 1979, and red slip terra cotta ornament and exterior...
photographic survey of george maher's american victorian style john c. scales house (1894), located at 840 west hutchinson street, chicago, il. the exterior is punctuated with richly colored rusticated stonework, gothic style fret-sawn woodwork, red slip-glazed terra cotta and leaded glass windows. ...
detail images of wheelock and thomas's downtown chicago post-fire bryant building or delaware block (1873), located at 36 west randolph street, chicago, il. the building was extensively remodeled (both interior and exterior) in 1889 and renamed the chicago real estate board building. the building is comprised...
slipped through the cracks: what remained of william j. brinkman's kuntz-remmler building (1908) located at 424 south wabash avenue, chicago, il., was recently demolished to make way for a spellbinding structure by enc construction and development. the cream-colored sullivanesque style building (a clumsy knock off of...
exterior detail images of hammond, beeby, and babka's 10-story harold washington library (1991), located at 400 south state street, chicago, il. i've included kodachrome images...
after nearly seven years documenting restoration of frank lloyd wright's a.d. german warehouse, the interior is accessible to the public and available for tours! interior and exterior photographic images of frank lloyd wright's a.d. german warehouse (1914), located at 300 south church street, richland center, wi. it...
demolition images of the sante fe grain elevator or "damen silos" (john metcalf, civil engineer), located at 2860 south damen avenue, chicago, il. the reinforced concrete grain elevators were built between 1906-1933 by the topeka & santa...
severance at its finest. recent images of a 19th century two story masonry rowhouse punctuated with patented frear or "artifical" stone and corbelled arch brick cornice located at 24-26 south sacramento blvd., chicago, il. the...
i haven't returned to congress theater (fridstein and company, 1926) since i published my book on what i discovered from within in 2017). ...
more to follow in coming weeks. images courtesy of eric j. nordstrom and the bld. 51 archive. all rights reserved. 2025....
recent exterior survery of sullivanesque style single story american ideal cleaning company commerical building, located at 10351 south michigan avenue, chicago, il. the "stock" pattern white glazed terra cotta ornament was executed by the midland terra cotta company, chiago, il. ...
the bld. 51 museum is collaborating with the chicago-based casalino archive to digitize and showcase newly discovered and seldom seen color slides (e.g., kodachromes) of henry ives cobb's federal building and post office (1898-1905) and surrounding historically important commerical buildings as they appeared in the...
2025 photographic study of parker berry's two-story first state bank of manilus (1915), located at 122 east maple street, manilus, il. the polychromed sullivanesque terra cotta ornament was executed by the american terra cotta company, il. ...